Sunklands

bb: Hucka? LINK.

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Neo-classic Pythagoreans tire of keeping track of all the branchings of TILE. “See?” they point out. “This is what you get with extensions. You get refractions. Just like in the picture from that album. What is it: Passion Play?” “No,” I reply, and exhale deeply. But they’re right about the branchings. TILE and Tyle. Special and Mundane. Board oriented verses Waterfall oriented. There are as many parts of TILE as there are colors of the rainbow. And that’s the point, I believe. A spread out point, true, but a point if you look at it from a long enough distance still. We must step back, way back. Further back than that, even. Further. There. We’re at the point of analysis. Let’s begin again.

TILE is born in Dark Side of the Rainbow. This is the belief of a fundamental Rainbowologist. I might believe this too. This is my confession. I am a Rainbowologist and I believe TILE truly begins in Dark Side (of the Rainbow). That’s it drawing way back and taking a look-see. There, that wasn’t so hard.

PART II

HOW IT’S DONE

We are now able to look at more meaningful details. Where exactly does it start, this TILE and Dark Side fusion? One can say it begins when Dorothy falls into the pigpen at her farm exactly 4 minutes into both the synch and the album.

Why there? That’s when we separate from all those crocogator Neo-Pythagoreans and their haughty ways. That’s where we exit the corrupt Realm of Numbers and enter the purer Realm of Letters. We learn that Kansas is pure and uncorrupted at 5 and 8, or “I” and “E”. We learn that Oz is singly corrupted, missing only one letter from its own “T” and “L”. We’ve learned so much from a merger of TILE and Dark Side. And we must follow this single corruption further. Where does the missing letter of TILE go? What is the missing letter?

This one is easy easier to understand. According to Baum biographers, the creator of Oz got the name from a filing cabinet drawer labelled O-Z. This would be the same as the final 12 letters of the Roman Modern alphabet, out of 26 total of course. Split down the middle, this alphabet would contain 13 letters on each side, or A-M and then N-Z. But here we have O-Z for the second half of TILE within Dark Side. The missing letter is obviously *N*. Oz uncorrupted might then be actually called Noz. We don’t know. And then the second part of our present conundrum: where does the letter go if it exits TILE? Well, it goes into that filthy Realm of Numbers, that’s where. Hidden and further corrupted.

We even know what this missing piece truly stands for within the Baum mythology. It is the same as Ozma, true ruler of Oz as we find out in books beyond Baum’s original one, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (basis for the first movie). Here’s the story from the mythology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Ozma

While still an infant, Ozma, the baby daughter of the former King Pastoria of Oz, was given to the witch Mombi of the North by the Wizard of Oz. Mombi transformed Ozma into a boy and called him “Tip” (short for Tippetarius) in order to prevent the rightful ruler of Oz from ascending to the throne. Thus, Ozma spent her entire childhood with Mombi in the form of the boy Tip, and had no memory of ever having been a girl. During this time, Tip had managed to create Jack Pumpkinhead who was brought to life by Mombi’s Powder of Life. In The Marvelous Land of Oz, Glinda the Good Sorceress discovered what had happened and forced Mombi to turn Tip back into Ozma; ever since then, the Princess has possessed the Throne of Oz (although many realms within Oz remained unaware of her authority).

In SID’s 1st Oz and the parallel Return to Oz movie, Ozma is returned to her rightful place as Ruler of Oz. She is De Queen. TILE is thus fulfilled, like Oz is fulfilled at this place in time. SID’s 1st Oz becomes a complete TILE. But wait… not quite. Because we have that troublesome kink at approximately the 3/4th point in the synch.

No, not that Kink. Instead it comes at “Dark Globe” by Syd Barrett. He’s tatooed his brain all the way by now. Dorothy is Helen Keller blinded about how to proceed. She must find Scarecrow and the other Oz characters who have been turned into ornaments. But how?? At the end of Dark Globe, all’s she can do is close her eyes and spin around and around and wait to stop.

Tull is the “l”, the “t”, the “e”, and then not the “i” but the *”y”*. It is Tyle, not TILE. But still: close! And as Tull is Tyle not TILE, then we have SID not Syd (Barrett) to balance. This is not Syd’s 1st Oz, but SID’s 1st Oz. The link is Walt SIDney. More soon on that, perhaps.

SID’s 1st Oz regions and their tiles, with Tull tiles highlighted in an appropriate TILE color:

T (Kansas; 7): f g h i j k l
E (Oz; 8): m n o p q r s t
L (Nome King; 6>7): u v w x y z a
I (Return; 5>4): b c d e

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8:30pm:

I’ve been getting complaints from readers a reader that I’m just wandering in this series and getting nowhere in particular and becoming more and more diffuse and just not explaining myself well and so on and so forth. What’s rainbowology got to do with this and that and the other thing? they query. Well, I think I’m getting to that. Remember we’re in the “T” of SID’s 1st Oz, which can be seen as a complete TILE. Macro-letters I’m talking about here( once more). This is the beginning macro-letter of SID, composed of seven separate tiles each making a one-to-one match between audio and video pieces. I call this “region” of SID — one of 4 again — the Kansas region, because it all basically takes place in Kansas except for the very end where we have Dorothy arriving in the Deadly Desert surrounding Oz, accompanied by the first part of Jethro Tull’s A Passion Play album from 1973. Yes, the same year as Dark Side of the Moon. Yes, if you listen to the album those are very similar opening heartbeats to Dark Side. No, I don’t think A Passion Play is an homage to a fellow 1973 album. Actually they were on the Billboard charts at the same time (no. 1 and no. 3 here)…

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10:30pm

I’m going to open up the phone lines for a bit. Hold on…

Continuous Blog Reader:

So are you saying Dark Side of the Moon and A Passion Play are clones?

bb:

In a way. Both begin and end with heartbeats, and both wax and wane in and out of the album ta boot.

CBR:

Ta boot?

bb:

Yeah.

CBR:

I came to your blog promised that it was about a different angle into Second Life and I get all this Rainbowology crap that doesn’t make any sense. Can you explain? Really, I think we, the Reader, need one.

bb:

The Frank and Herman, Einstein! Blog is suppose to be about 2 local parks at the root of it, and mainly self spun mythologies surrounding them.

CBR:

Where are the parks?

bb:

Where I live.

CBR:

Where’s that?

bb:

Blue Mountain.

CBR:

I’ve looked that up and I found one in Arkansas. Is that the one? It’s near some mountains.

bb:

No. It doesn’t matter where Blue Mountain is. It’s in the mountains. It has a college. It has the *parks*. That’s all you need to know.

CBR:

What if I want to go to these parks and retrace your steps to better grok what you’re on about here in this here blog?

bb:

I can do that privately if you wish. If I know you a bit.

CBR:

Do you know me well enough?

bb:

No.

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Let’s shift to caller #2 about 30 minutes later. This person called himself Wheeler. I’ll attempt to edit out the boring parts…

Wheeler:

That’s fascinating about SID’s 1st Oz having so strong a center, unlike Dark Side of the Rainbow. So the “T” is the Kansas — region I think you called it…

bb:

Yes.

Wheeler:

And that’s the same as the Kansas 1/2 of Dark Side of the Rainbow, or the equivalent. They’re about the same length. All you’re getting at in these Rainbowology posts is that equation. Dorothy starts in Kansas in Dark Side of the Rainbow and then enters Oz in the second half. This is the same as the 2 sides of Dark Side of the Moon. That’s easy. Then in SID’s 1st Oz, the direct followup as it were…

bb:

… as it is…

Wheeler:

… You have Dorothy in Kansas again to begin and then heading to Oz about 20-25 minutes in, but this is only the *one-fourth* point of SID’s 1st Oz, as opposed to the one-half point.

bb:

Yes. You’ve caught on suspiciously well.

Wheeler:

Thank you.

bb:

Are you actually a Wheeler? An Oz Wheeler?

Wheeler:

You bet!

bb:

I suspect you may be Hucka D.

Wheeler:

Nah. So to continue… SID of course does have a halfway point, but its the halfway point in the related movie and not the album. The Return to Oz movie. Were you suppose to say that?

bb:

Er…

Wheeler:

And this center, this halfway point, is not a point like in Dark Side of the Rainbow but more spread out. There’s a central story of Return to Oz that matches the central one of A Passion Play here. You must begin at the top with A Passion Play and its direct relation to Dark Side of the Moon. Never forget that.

bb:

I’ll never forget that.

Wheeler:

A Passion Play has 4 tiles in SID’s 1st Oz, correct? I know it to be so.

bb:

Hucka?

We are thus already trapped within TILE, within the macro-letter “T” to be specific. But we have a way out, just like Dorothy has a way out of the jail-like corn crib. She must enter Oz, and we must follow her.

We prepare through the last letter or tile of “T”, which is “l”. The macro-letters feed upon themselves, which is good. Good eat’n. Otherwise, each would represent a private jail — split off universes, not communicating with each other, not interacting.

“And that’s a fact, (Jack).”

Tull is the escape. The heartbeats begin again. Music kicks in, culminates, then exits to leave the heartbeats, which die down as the sarcophagus closes. We are dead. We are Dorothy dead in the Deadly Desert. But it only surrounds us (“Death all around”, as Queen will subsequently preach in The Prophet’s Song).

We are alive! All we have to do is follow the stepping stones to Oz, careful not to fall off (or else: death). Thank you Tull!

This segues into the examination of Wilson-Wheeler-Norris, a local embodiment of this universal application. LINK.

Classic and neo-classic Tilists see the tetractys as a womb-state before the birth of TILE proper and individuation of numbers into letters. Neo-classic Pythagoreans see TILE as a sloppy spillover of tetratys perfection (Tetrafection). Some even identify it as a physical spillway: the one at Drink Lake Dam in Herman Park. They might think it appropriate that early Tilist Grassy Knoll, famous for playing Salad Bar Jack in all those action-adventure movies from the 1630’s, claimed to have spilled over this dam to subsequently be eaten by Big Bob at the place where TILE Creek empties its colorful waters into the Old River, ironically one of the newest of its type.

But back to Wheeler-Wilson-Norris…

Above we have pictured a side-by-side Head Nurse Wilson and the future Head Wheeler from Return to Oz and, of course, SID’s 1st Oz. Actually, the man who plays the Head Wheeler is in front of Wilson, which could means we are in the realm of of First Non-President R. “Booger” Hayes once more.

But, then again, the role of Wheeler is still in the future for the gurney driver.

He wears white and the nurse black. White = present moment. Black is in the shadows of the past already.* We then enter the electroshock room. Here we encounter Norris and his mad dream of electrical shocks and surprises as the solution to All.

Dorothy is forced to listen to the first part of Queen’s “Death on 2 Legs”, the 1st track from their fabulous “A Night at the Opera” album most famous for giving the world “Bohemian Rhapsody”. But the 1st track unexpectedly turns off at the end of the piano led introduction as a lightning strike kills the hospital’s electricity. Dorothy’s brain is saved. The Wilson-Wheeler Paradox is complete.

It’s time now for a bit of Tull as we stream toward Oz.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris_Dam

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* Note: This probably also represents *Head* Trip, as Head is white and Trip is black within. Head Trip and its 2 equalized components represents just as much of a conundrum and paradox as Wheeler-Wilson in its fullness. They too must be seen as parallel events.

What a match!!